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Weekend Preview: A Look Ahead to this Week's Best Action in Europe

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Weekend Preview: A Look Ahead to this Week's Best Action in Europe There's plenty of crucial matches across Europe to whet the appetite this weekend, and here we summarise the best of the action by league.Premier LeagueWhile Chelsea vs Manchester United was no doubt earmarked as the top match of gameweek 25 in the Premier League at the start of the season, ther...

Player Focus: Saponara Keeping the Traditional Number 10 Role Alive

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Player Focus: Saponara Keeping the Traditional Number 10 Role Alive All Riccardo Saponara ever dreamed of was to play in the red and black of AC Milan. For that, his father Luciano is to blame. A passionate fan of the club, he’s the one who passed it onto his son. As a boy, Saponara’s first football memory was of Milan winning the Scudetto in 1999. Only ...

Player Focus: Can Higuain Buck Scorer Trend & Lead Napoli to the Title?

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Player Focus: Can Higuain Buck Scorer Trend & Lead Napoli to the Title? To get the measure of Maurizio Sarri, consider this for a moment. He turned 57 on Sunday. Until last season, he had never coached in Serie A. He never played professionally. And yet upon being confronted with Gonzalo Higuain, the striker Napoli paid €38m for a couple of years ago, the second hi...

League Focus: Why the Headed Goal is a Dying Art in Serie A

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League Focus: Why the Headed Goal is a Dying Art in Serie A No one has scored more headed goals in the history of Serie A than Alberto Gilardino and so when Palermo sold Paulo Dybala to Juventus last summer and signed him as a replacement, it was evident that how they attacked would have to change. A little less interplay between the lines and players taking...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Across Europe

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Across Europe Serie A’s evening fixtures forbids you from going out for Christmas shopping. Two of the fiercest Italian rivalries will take centre stage and this time, it won't solely focus on the history of the fixtures, as all four teams are involved in the battle for maximum points this season. Napoli vs...

Player Focus: Jorginho the Conductor of Sarri's Napoli Orchestra

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Player Focus: Jorginho the Conductor of Sarri's Napoli Orchestra As Christmas approaches in Serie A, Napoli are top of the tree. Unbeaten in 18 games in all competitions, it’s the first time they have been in this position at this stage of a season for quarter of a century. Not even Diego Maradona’s Scudetto-winning vintages in `86-87 and `89-90 had a...

Player Focus: Higuain Primed to Fire Napoli to Serie A Summit

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Player Focus: Higuain Primed to Fire Napoli to Serie A Summit “The contract will be respected. He’ll only go if a madman offers the buy-out clause. However, Gonzalo still belongs to Napoli,” the club’s charismatic chairman Aurelio De Laurentiis said of his star striker over the summer. Gonzalo Higuain’s current release clause is s...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe With European competitions done and dusted for another fortnight, attention now returns to the domestic scene, where there are a series of tantalising fixtures across the continent, including top of the table clashes in Serie A and the Premier League and big matches in Germany and Spain, too.Napoli ...

WhoScored Tipster: Napoli, Derby d'Italia and Klopp Among this Week's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: Napoli, Derby d'Italia and Klopp Among this Week's Top Tips Old and new prestige takes centre stage in the top 5 leagues this weekend. The classic of the Derby d’Italia contrasted against the new autumn wave at the top in Spain, and not forgetting the clash between the teams playing the best football in Serie A at the moment (not Inter-Juve). However, ...

Player Focus: Football Immortality in Impressive Insigne's Sights

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Player Focus: Football Immortality in Impressive Insigne's Sights Even the Boston Celtics were on their feet. VIPs on Sunday night at San Siro, they had been impressed by the pick and roll and the small ball played by Napoli. Lorenzo Insigne probably reminded them of Muggsy Bogues. 15 minutes from the end, he left the field to a standing ovation, not only from the...